Blackham Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 1. Anything beside cigars. Cigar accessories acceptable though 2. Has to be a material object. Experience/friendships/love doesn't count 3. Doesn't have to be bought with money. A jar of sand scooped from the beach works. As for me, I got some Cuban cuisine recipes from a casa particulare owner, the fried tuna dish has been a party favorite ever since.
BradNC Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 Chlamydia? LOL - I think Ken was going to respond with a similar answer. Ok, just kidding.
bassman Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 Bought "stuff" on my visits, but the most important to me are the hundred of photographs I took of a way of life that disappeared here at least 60 years ago. 100 year old steam locomotives pulling trains of sugar cane from the fields to the mills, classic cars, colonial style buildings & wonderful people.
Generalgman Posted January 21, 2012 Posted January 21, 2012 My new Cuban suitcase.... After Cuban adventures resulted in my losing the luggage I had brought with me...
kcheek Posted January 21, 2012 Posted January 21, 2012 Chlamydia? LOL! I think that one falls under number 2. "Love" Never been there, hope to someday.
Blackham Posted January 22, 2012 Author Posted January 22, 2012 Chlamydia? At first glance I thought its a type of tropical fruit My new Cuban suitcase.... After Cuban adventures resulted in my losing the luggage I had brought with me... I got something like this too, but its a souvenir from friend's Asia trip. Although aesthetically unpleasing its very durable. My cat likes to sleep in it during summer time
CanuckSARTech Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 Wooden ashtray made up of many different types of Cuban woods....
CanuckSARTech Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 That, and a finer appreciation for our vehicle safety standards here....
Blackham Posted January 23, 2012 Author Posted January 23, 2012 that ashtray looks awesome, where did you get it?
CanuckSARTech Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 that ashtray looks awesome, where did you get it? I picked that up at the artisan market in Habana, during my April 2008 trip. Only like $5 CUCs that the guy selling it had wanted initially. Bartered him down to two for $5 (another, slightly different one for my Dad), and then ended up giving him a $10 CUC anyways, saying thank you very much for all the hard work it likely took for that one. Made him smile and laugh, that I played the "bartering game" with him, in a nice and courteous way, but that I respected the work enough to outright give him what he asked. Very cool - I don't know who made out better! He actually enjoyed what I did there so much, that he took me over to another area for paintings (told him that my wife and I were looking for some), and he brought me over to see a buddy of his that had very different and unique stuff from some of the typical/cookie-cutter paintings and artwork that you see at the tourist traps in Cuba. Got a HUGE and beautiful painting that has pride of place in my wife and I's bedroom. A beautiful huge thing, 5'x3' or so. I'll have to take and post a picture of that later on this week maybe....
danistalking Posted January 24, 2012 Posted January 24, 2012 2 Machetes. That wood ashtray looks awesome. Definitely going to be on the look out for something like that. I'll be heading to Varadero, I wonder if they'll have something similar at the market.
LLC Posted January 25, 2012 Posted January 25, 2012 Very heavy marble ashtray from the hotel National.
Bartolomeo Posted January 26, 2012 Posted January 26, 2012 Very heavy marble ashtray from the hotel National. These are pretty cool!
Blackham Posted January 26, 2012 Author Posted January 26, 2012 2 Machetes. That wood ashtray looks awesome. Definitely going to be on the look out for something like that. I'll be heading to Varadero, I wonder if they'll have something similar at the market. I saw my tour guide has one, it looks very cool. Where did you buy it from? Did you have any trouble passing airport security with it? Very heavy marble ashtray from the hotel National. I saw it in person when I went there, didn't know you could purchase one, how much did it cost? anyways this is also my favorite
LLC Posted January 27, 2012 Posted January 27, 2012 I saw my tour guide has one, it looks very cool. Where did you buy it from? Did you have any trouble passing airport security with it? I saw it in person when I went there, didn't know you could purchase one, how much did it cost? anyways this is also my favorite I got the marble ashtray at The Hotel Natioanl. I think it was around $40 cuc and packed it in my checked bag. When I was there it was the last one this size but I would think they'd get more.
danistalking Posted January 27, 2012 Posted January 27, 2012 I saw my tour guide has one, it looks very cool. Where did you buy it from? Did you have any trouble passing airport security with it? No problems bringing them in. I put them in my luggage at the top where the handle is and they were wrapped in newspaper. I guess they're not REAL but the blade part is a pretty heavy steal..so maybe they are? lol
scradley Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 picked this up on my trip last september figured it fit well in my office at home
TheLiquidGator Posted December 22, 2013 Posted December 22, 2013 I have an extra Hotel National de Cuba ashtray am willing to trade off. If there is an interest please PM me.
stogieluver Posted December 23, 2013 Posted December 23, 2013 A couple of humidors, one bought at the market in Havana and one bought from a street vendor in Santa Clara. Also treasure a box of Robaina Unico's autographed by Carlos at his LCDH. Really regret not going after one of those Hotel de Nacional ashtrays. As a U. S. citizen, don't know if I'll ever get another chance to go back to get one.
stogieluver Posted December 23, 2013 Posted December 23, 2013 I have an extra Hotel National de Cuba ashtray am willing to trade off. If there is an interest please PM me. PM sent.
El Presidente Posted December 23, 2013 Posted December 23, 2013 Years ago, a roller on an out of the way farm outside of Pinar showed me how he rolls "Farmies". We spent a few hours together as i picked his brain as to selecting seco and volado, getting the proportions right. I had dinner at his house with wife and kids. He bundled them in newspaper and gifted them to me. He wouldn't take money. I pushed him and traded them for my Prince Torch Lighter + Xikar cutter that I had on me at the time. He threw in a polaroid picture of him and his family. Priceless
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